Arrival - Winterlude 2024 - CycleBlaze

April 9, 2025

Arrival

So let’s go out of sequence for a few days and just swan dive into Puglia, bypassing some interesting days and stories: the flight of the Raven, a last coffee date, the always exciting storage unit shuffle, the flight.  We’ll wrap back and pick them up later but it’s 10PMhere, suddenly I’m totally wiped out, and it’s all I’ve got left in me to drop in a few photos.  Buona notte.

Oops. Wrong journal!!  I’ll come back nd finish the previous pages, but this is the transition point to the new year.  Think of this a a quick peek into the coming season to reassure you that the series has been reviewed for another year, and with the same principals.  Isn’t it about time for that old guy to slip off somewhere though and give Rocky some fit younger hunk fo share the stage with?  Rocky and the old guy is out, Rocky and the Bikepacker is in.  You wish, Rachael!

Staring down the Adriatic Sea. Nice.
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The hills don’t look like they’ll be too bad.
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Bari.
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I’m not sure, but that might be Ostuni. I’ll stare at it tomorrow.
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ann and steve maher-wearyHi Scott and Rachel
We have been faithfully following you as always but we were especially concerned about you this past winter, reading about your health horrors! We are now so excited to see that you are off again on one of your epic adventures. Thanks as always for sharing your trips with us, you inspire us more every year! Have a fantastic trip.
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Scott AndersonTo ann and steve maher-wearyHey there! Yes, we’re thrilled to be here again ourselves. I think I’m safe in saying this winter brought the darkest month of my life, even worse than the months when Carol Jo and I were deciding whether I was going to go to Vietnam as an infantryman or desert and flee to Canada.

It will be different than our travels in the past, but wonderful in a whole different way. Thanks for following along!
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Touchdown!
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All present and accounted for.
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Our street, in the heart of the old city.
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Our home for the next two nights. There’s a story here, but it can wait.
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The bathroom’s downstairs, the beds upstairs. The hikes say nay but lose the vote.
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The view from our balcony.
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First meal.
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Kelly IniguezYou have arrived! Such a happier scenario than when you left last spring. Enjoy!
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CJ HornLucky you to be where Trump is not. Enjoy the respite. I promise to not mention him again.
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